Community newspaper executive Marva Brodie is dead

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May 13, 2026

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Community newspaper executive Marva Brodie is dead

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Marva Brodie, co-founder and director of the community newspaper, The News (originally Boulevard News), died from a heart attack at her Havendale home on Thursday, May 7.

She was 82 years old.

Her husband, veteran newsman and co-founder and managing editor of The News, Ben Brodie, told Observer Online that his wife suffered a seizure shortly after she woke.

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